Wednesday, July 24, 2013

SENATE PANEL SEEKS TRANSFER OF RIVERS POLICE CHIEF

SENATE PANEL SEEKS TRANSFER OF RIVERS POLICE CHIEF


Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya
The Senate committee on State and Local Government has indicted the Rivers State police commissioner over the crisis in the state, Daily Trust learnt in Abuja yesterday.
The committee, chaired by Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya (ANPP, Kano), was on 10 July mandated by the Senate to visit Rivers and investigate the remote and immediate causes of the crisis in the state House of Assembly.
Gaya yesterday submitted the report to the Senate in plenary session including video recordings of their proceedings and submissions made by different parties.
Contents of the report were not made available, but a source told Daily Trust that the commissioner was criticised in the report for his role in the violence at the state assembly in which some lawmakers were injured.
The source said the panel condemned the action of the Rivers State commissioner of Police Mr. Joseph Mbu who they accused of not leaving up to expectation, and called for his withdrawal from the state.
The investigation followed a motion sponsored by Senator Magnus Abe (PDP, Rivers), who raised a point of order citing matters of personal explanation drawing the attention of his colleagues to the fracas in the state assembly
Gaya and his committee had held hearings between 11 and 14 July in Port Harcourt where it received submissions from the warring factions.
The Senate is scheduled to consider the report today
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